Title :
A current mode sense amplifier with self-compensation circuit for SRAM application
Author :
Heqing Xu ; Song Jia ; Jiyu Chen ; Yuan Wang ; Gang Du
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microelectron., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A current mode sense amplifier which is proved to achieve low power and high speed is presented. Its sensing delay is independent of the bitline capacitances. It utilizes self-compensation circuit, hence improving the sensing speed and reliability of the existing sense amplifier. Simulation results based on the 1V/65nm CMOS process have verified the proposed design outperforms the original scheme in comparison by 32.4% in terms of speed and 6.5% in terms of power consumption.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; SRAM chips; amplifiers; circuit reliability; current-mode circuits; low-power electronics; CMOS process; SRAM; bitline capacitances; current mode sense amplifier; power consumption; self-compensation circuit; sensing delay; size 65 nm; voltage 1 V; Capacitance; Educational institutions; Integrated circuit reliability; Microelectronics; Random access memory; Sensors;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC (ASICON), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6415-7
DOI :
10.1109/ASICON.2013.6812020
